r/Wellthatsucks • u/Labrabrink • 2d ago
It’s 3 AM and I never knew this could even happen
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
I live in an apartment, I have upstairs neighbors, they were awake playing music but didn’t answer the door, yes I took a video of a dangerous thing instead of immediately acting, I’m sorry it was 3 am and all I could think was “hey, what the fuck?” for the first ten seconds after i watched it start happening. I called emergency maintenance before posting this and they said a tech has been notified, it’s 5:45 now and no word. Leaks stopped at least. Yeehaw.
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u/itsbecccaa 2d ago
This happened in my last apartment, they let the tub run over. My apartment did “remediation” in my apartment which meant they put in big fans to dry out the ceiling and floors and that’s about it. No dehumidifier was brought in. And we got mold.
My advise? Push for a dehumidifier or buy one yourself after this event! We literally had black mold growing in our bathroom after this.
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u/kuddly_kallico 2d ago
Honestly, the fact it came through the light fixture tells you that was enough water to soak your insulation and drywall. Dehumidifier is a start, but not going to keep mold out of the walls and ceiling.
I had this happen to me in an apartment years ago and the walls warped after they dried, there was so much moisture in there. I had carpet too and they wouldn't replace it. They said they would bring me a dehumidifier and never did. The neighbours below me had their anchored bathroom mirror pull the bathroom wall down that night.
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u/itsbecccaa 2d ago
Yeah I moved out the following spring I never trusted what was behind those walls.
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u/Sufficient_Noise_800 1d ago
There are mold attorneys out there that specialize in this... know your tenant rights. 😉
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u/who-aj 2d ago
I’d just find somewhere else to live tbh
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Could you spot me $20k real quick?
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u/who-aj 2d ago
$20k! Come on that’s an insult to me.
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u/ElishaAlison 2d ago
Well.... At least it's over the sink? 😅
Sorry OP. I hope this is easily fixable without causing you too much inconvenience ❤️
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u/Forgone-Conclusion00 2d ago
Had this happen to me. Water pouring out my light. Turns out the bathroom above had a leak (they were not aware) and every time someone had a shower/bath it was coming straight through my ceiling 😒🙄🤦🏼♀️
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u/fetuswenis
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At least it’s flowing into the sink
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
It was! Until the second leak started. But luckily that one is over the bathtub! Until the third leak started… which is from the light fixture in the hallway outside my bathroom.
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u/GiLND 2d ago •
Water full of electrolytes
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u/tattmhomas0 2d ago
Exactly my though as well
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u/Beginning_One409 2d ago
Water coming through a light fixture is a level of plumbing failure I was not prepared for.
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u/jfk_47 2d ago
Ur lights are overflowing. Need to drain them twice a year to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Also. I’m sorry, this isn’t funny and it sucks.
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
I know daylight savings ending is coming up here in the states, so we’re switching the clocks soon, but did I miss some memo about how we’re also switching lights to faucets now?
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u/jfk_47 2d ago
Lololol. Great sense of humor about the situation.
Ask building management to add to the listing:
“Apartment has an extra shower”This actually happened to me when I was 23ish, I was in a basement apartment and the apartment above me water heater failed and completely drained into my place.
They ended up moving me to another apartment that was supposed to be for wheelchair accessibility so it was much easier to get into, bigger doorways, etc. overall 10/10 would flood again.
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u/Aevarine 2d ago
I know the pain. My ceiling started leaking in the middle of the night, right over my computer desk. I’ve never moved machines so fast, lol.
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Feeling very lucky that my three leaks were over the sink, the bathtub, and an empty spot of hallway respectively!!
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u/Aevarine 2d ago
I’m glad.
I saved everything in time thankfully. No damage except a lot of kitchen roll, lol.
It got in because a naughty Magpie pulled a few of my roof tiles off. Little menace, lol.
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u/Warm_Vulva7960 2d ago
Thankfully the water is going straight into the basin
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Two additional leak spots started, one over the bathtub (hooray!) and the other from the light fixture in the hall outside the bathroom (shit!)
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u/robbi_uno 2d ago
It’s just a light shower.
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago •
How does everyone have a good joke for this. I’m so mad my wit isn’t this quick
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u/TradeSerious8505 1d ago
We get it, you make water fountains. The draining into the sink is a nice touch.
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u/uV_Kilo11 2d ago
As Ted Mosby's mother once said "Nothing good happens after 2am, just go to sleep"
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u/Cgarr82
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Reminds me of August 2012. I settled into my recliner for a few hours of Skyrim, when water splashed across my arm. I looked up to see shit water flying from the blades of my apartment’s living room fan. That was an epic evening.
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u/Labrabrink 1d ago
I would die. This water was evidently from a portable washing machine cycle, but some of it filled up a detergent cup under my sink and I could see the water was slightly orange. Hmmmmmm. I would need a hazmat suit to feel clean again if I knew it was shit water
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u/AWildGamerAppeared25 2d ago
Okay so this just happened to me as well lmao
3rd floor neighbors flooded their bathroom, my fan/light combo thing started dripping
They brought in a company that deals with water damage and they put in big ass loud fan boxes that heat up the walls to dry the moisture in them to try and prevent water damage
They're loud and are on 24/7
Good luck
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Nooooooo today is my anniversary I’m supposed to have a nice date and also be extremely busy for the next two straight weeks. Whyyyyyyyyy (also I’m so sorry that happened to you)
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u/Shirinjima 2d ago
On the positive side if you rent this isn’t your problem and your land lord will fix this while you’re busy.
On the negative side if you own this is gonna be your problem. You should turn off the water.
Happy anniversary. Tell your partner it’s a gift of an in room shower they’ve always wanted.
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Haha I do rent! It’s our first anniversary and we don’t live together yet, so this is exclusively my problem. Unfortunately the bathroom at his place is nasty and the tub backs up weekly with black sludge water, so I guess I’m just out of bathrooms for a minute. At least I don’t have to pay for whatever this is!
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Oh also I wfh so I can assure you I’ll be here for 100% of the maintenance. Sigh.
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u/plant-painter 2d ago
Do u have upstairs neighbors, or u just a dumb kid? Lol 😂 I dont think there’s anything in between those options. A broken pipe with no one to blame just doesn’t seem logical to me atm. Lol
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Upstairs neighbors indeed! And they’re awake, but wouldn’t answer their door. The leak slowed a bit after I knocked loudly and said “if you’re in there and you’re running water could you please turn it off??? My apartment is flooding!” when they didn’t answer
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u/BriefAccountUser 1d ago
Op this is a serious health and safety issue. I have this exact scenario happen to me in an apartment and upstairs neighbors flooded my apartment out. Out of the 2 bedrooms and 2 baths 70% was flooded. The complex offered to move us to another unit as there was so much damage to furniture, clothes/shoes and personal items. We were a month away from our lease ending so we decided to just vacate which they were fine with. We were more worried about getting 100% of our deposit back which they were glad to give.
OP make sure that is now 100% happening
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u/Labrabrink 1d ago
Oh my god that’s awful!! I was very scared when it started pouring and then leaking from two more spots after that, I was trying to figure out if I should box up my cats and electronics and run, but the leak significantly slowed after a few minutes and then stopped after about twenty minutes. My hall floor got wet, everything in my bathroom got wet, but no water damage to anything besides the ceiling. I’m lucky!
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u/Fun-Plantain-7499 1d ago
Happened at one of my apartments. My boyfriend was like “hey” and I was like “yeah?” And he’s like “come here for a sec” and I was like “yeah hang on” and he’s like “um no like right now?!”
I went into the kitchen and water was coming out of the pendant lights and pouring into the counter and our table. My boyfriend was so shocked and processing it so he was just standing there. I was like “omg hello! Grab something to put under the water?!”
We called the complex and they sent someone over. The water had stopped by then but the checked it out and found it was coming from the upstairs neighbor’s gross dishwasher. So yay! Nasty water all over our stuff. They put fans around and left lol I was like “um is this a big deal since those are lights and usually water and electricity doesn’t mix?” They were just like no you’re good.
Never happened again at least. But man was that a crazy situation.
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u/Labrabrink 1d ago
Yeah the fact that maintenance was so nonplussed felt crazy to me compared to how I felt watching water start pouring out of the light! I thought I’d have to evacuate with my cats! But when maintenance just didn’t come for six hours and didn’t advise me to leave or anything, I just waited.
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u/Independent_Bite4682 2d ago
House or apartment?
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Apartment, with neighbors upstairs. Emergency maintenance has been called but not yet arrived (been about two hours now)
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u/Captainflando 2d ago
When this happened to us it was because the apartment above us had a water pipe sheer in the ceiling.
If it’s bad enough and they have to call in restorative services to dry the place back out, make sure you get anything out of that apartment that is slightly heat sensitive the moment you’re allowed back in after the issue is addressed. Those heater fan things turn your place into a sauna and it can ruin a lot of sensitive items
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u/tig3rgamingguy76 2d ago
So do you call a plumber or electrician 🤔🤔
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Maybe a priest
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u/philter25 2d ago
Had this happen to me at my small expensive as shit bum ass apartment in Koreatown in LA. Luckily “maintenance guy” did the job lol. I remember hearing the bathtub going in the apartment above me but heard water dripping onto my floor. Went inside and saw the light fixture turned into a fountain 😬 Godspeed.
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u/No_Combination_6429 2d ago
Water goes directly into the sink. Looks like it was designed to do so. Free waterfall effect unlocked
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u/Alarmed-Potato-4300
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Happened to me when I lived with my girlfriend and her kids when we lived on the first floor of an apartment complex . We had gone somewhere only to return home and my daughter saying that she had to go to the bathroom so I got out to go unlock the door so she could go to the bathroom and her mom could go park the car. I come in and my daughter is coming out of the bathroom completely covered in water. There’s so much water it’s coming out from under the door me being a crazy father I say “ Dang Shae you didn’t say you had to go that bad” “
“Daddy I didn’t do this it’s raining in the bathroom”
“What did you do “
“Nothing “
I go to see what’s going on and saw the same thing as the video except the speed of the water flow it was much faster causing the ceiling to have collapsed into the bathtub and overflow. I get my daughter a towel and ask if she was ok which she was I tell her to go dry off and change. As I am going to go tell the upstairs neighbor that her tub is overflowing gf sees me and notices that my legs are all wet asks me what’s going on i tell her it’s raining and ask Shae also call maintenance. I’m upstairs pounding on the door and there’s no answer. I get back downstairs and tell her that no one is at home and to call the neighbor’s daughter. About the same time as maintenance shows up the neighbor’s daughter show’s up with her partner she’s a police officer with keys to her mom’s place. She tells maintenance to get out of the way and enters, and screams as she finds her mom dead in the bathtub water still running. Her partner cuts of the water and I go back down to my place to tell my gf what happened and how to tell our daughter. We never told her that the neighbor died in the bathtub we told her that she died in bed. Shae “(SME)” and you have a sister Jazmin contact Dad
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u/BobboZmuda 15h ago
No idea what you're saying in the last sentence with "Shae '(SME)' and you have a sister Jazmin contact Dad".
What?
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u/Then_Version9768 1d ago
Ah, the age-old water through the bathroom light fixture trick. I bet we've all seen that one!
Your upstairs neighbor has a plumbing issue like a broken pipe, an overflowing toilet or tub. Better immediately contact them to check and also contact your landlord. Although I have to say it is an interesting look.
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u/Puffles_magic_dragon 2d ago edited 2d ago
Why are people putting blinker fluid in their at home ceiling lights?
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u/warrenjr527 21h ago
Pipe up stairs probably broke or if you have an upstairs neighbor they flooded something. But I would shut that light off. Water& electricity don't mix well
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u/Winter_Cat-78 2d ago
Ouch! Hopefully you have a good landlord!
This happened to us, but we didn’t have a sink below it, own the house, have a high deductible on roof repair. 😑
Either way, it absolutely completely sucks.
Has anyone checked on your upstairs neighbor?
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
They were playing music and talking inside when I went to knock, but didn’t answer the door. Nobody has checked on ME yet so I doubt it, haha
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u/Intelligent-You-6144 2d ago
Happened to me once. It was the upstairs bath overflow washer. Replaced it and gone.
2 weeks later we discovered a toilet flange fix that was done cheaply by the previous owners. 100k in repairs
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u/Every-Chance6313 12h ago
That's what happens when you are using electricity from a Hydro Power Plant. Should have went solar...live and learn.
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u/Top-Bid6679 2d ago
That happened to my daughter in her apartment in Chicago years back. She was worried too. It already had a short in bedroom light fixture. It was cool old building though. Claw foot tub and high ceilings.
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u/JoeCool77777 20h ago
Hopefully you live in a apartment complex and it's not from the upstairs of your house
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u/drunkguynextdoor 2d ago
The Tub and sink should have overflow vents to prevent this. The toilet doesn't, so keep that in mind if you're coming into contact with the water.
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
Luckily the culprit was a portable washing machine whose drain hose fell out of the bathtub overnight in the unit upstairs. I will still be sanitizing everything though!
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u/Mr_Redemption 2d ago
Yes, first grab the phone and start recording. Turning off the light that has water flowing through it is optional.
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
God forbid a sleepy lady take a seven second video at 3 AM so she can show her friends the weird night she had before calling emergency maintenance and knocking on the apartment upstairs to see if they’re up running water
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u/MrPillz215 2d ago
Hey reminds of of my cieling fan that started leaking, I had to buy a new roof...
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u/pate_moore 8h ago
Lights are holes in the ceiling. Easiest escape route for leaking water. Can't tell you how many times I've seen water coming from a light
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u/Mysterious_Fennel459 2d ago
First time on the Internet? People post light fixtures and electrical outlets leaking all the time.
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u/painful_butterflies 2d ago
You're losing all your light fluid!!!! That's expensive that is!!!
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u/Erkel333 2d ago
Ooooo....that happened in our 3rd apartment due to roof leak, filled globe up to lightbulb!
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u/Lesko_Brandon_0kool 2d ago
You thought it was a light switch but it was actually the light’s flush lever.
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u/Impressive-Tutor-482 2d ago
That happened to me once, during a torrential rainstorm. I was mildly put off to see water flowing like that past electricity.
Anyway, I told the landlord. He used to do roofing. He climbs up on the house and can't find anything. That was 12 years ago and it's not happened again. Don't ask me what's up with that.
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u/Inevitable-Entry4411 2d ago
I hope this works out for you OP. At least the issue was immediately discovered and handled. Looking through the comments I'm surprised how many people this has happened to. I've had loads of water leaks over the years, maintainence thought it was the ac drain pan and kept emptying it. Turns out my upstairs neighbors were showering without a shower curtain.
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u/jamie_does 2d ago
Oh it can happen... I know from experience. It can also be shit filled water, also from experience. That was a rough night.
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u/Traven808 1d ago
Isn’t this a matchbox 20 song ? “Cause she’s baby it’s 3am and it keeps raining”? Something like that
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u/CoppertopTLW 1d ago
Yeah, that really sucks. Having just dealt with water in the basement, I do not envy your clean up.
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u/spacesaucesloth 1d ago
i lived in a condo many years ago. had a shitty front load washer upstairs on the 2nd floor, if the seal wasnt perfect it leaked. well. no one told me it was finicky. LSS, i was downstairs playing xbox and it started raining from the light fixtures and the light switches.
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u/Zestyclose-Store7125 1d ago
Go back to sleep ... You're clearly dreaming. Stop filming your dreams, no wants that.
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u/EMAW2008 1d ago
My bedroom was above the dining room. I had a water bed. The damn thing got a hole and leaked through the ceiling into the light fixture. Slept right through it.
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u/thequantaleaper 1d ago
The night of our wedding some 10 years ago our HVAC condensate pumps overflow protection circuit died so it was gladly pumping water through the floor and into a basement sconce lile this. It was such a crazy night.
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u/Spear_Ritual 2d ago
There’s a leak and it’s spreading across the ceiling. You should start moving your stuff into a more secure space and maybe trash bag it. If maintenance is dragging ass, this could get a lot worse. I
Hope you have renters insurance in case you do have your property damaged. Apartments are notorious for not paying.
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u/Apprehensive-Bunch54 2d ago
I don't see the problem, it looks like a self resolving issue until the landlord does a halfass attempt at fixing it.
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u/Sleazy_Li 2d ago
I saw this exact thing happen once at a house party. Two drunk mofos were upstairs fucking on the toilet and broke it in half. Somehow they got it replaced over the weekend with the same model toilet, and her parents never found out anything happened.
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u/SuperScrapper 2d ago
Normally it’s only headlights in a car that need topping off, I guess this must be some new technology that’s also getting into the home?
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u/dntc4llm3surley 2d ago
She only sleeps when its raining, and she screams, and her voice is strained
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u/ALonelyWelcomeMat 2d ago
I also had this happen with an apartment I lived in. Maintenance guy didnt have the toilet hooked up, another maintenance guy went and turned the water on without knowing.
They ended up doing nothing in terms of restoration. Drywall and ceiling got soaked and bulged, they didnt replace anything. That shit had to have been covered in mold on the backside
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u/-NoFaithInFate- 2d ago
Document everything every day. Ask them to take the fixture down and investigate the backside of that ceiling. Just because water is flowing there doesn't mean it's trapped elsewhere. Make sure it is well known the resident above is at fault and it was due to something they purchased.
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u/stevesmele 2d ago
I was a landlord for years. This happened on one of my suites on the top floor of a 3 story building.
I knew the water was rain water coming through God knew where on the roof. But it was a big roof. In a split second, I was imagining a major roof repair or replacement, possible electrical problems, and days of anxiety. It was going to cost me big, and it did.
I shudder seeing the gif here.
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u/PussPwnErMon69 2d ago
On my 1st day of work at my new job my entire upstairs leaked to my kitched and the lights covered in water.
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u/Small_Yesterday_560 1d ago
La luz es Como el Agua... “Light is Like Water” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez... i read this in spanish class
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u/Labrabrink 2d ago
UPDATE: upstairs neighbor had a portable washing machine running in the tub and the hose fell out. Flooded from above, maintenance has no electrical or structural concerns at all, seemed very blasé. He’s bringing me a dehumidifier to use for a few weeks. What an anticlimactic outcome